Author: Opinion

Dr Abul Hasnat Milton At the recent Bangladesh Investment Summit, a poignant moment captured national attention: Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus broke into tears while recalling the 1974 famine in Bangladesh. The image of such a globally revered figure crying stirred both sympathy and suspicion. To some, it seemed like a rare show of emotion […]

Sayed Abedin is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a Barrister Coup That Came in Student UniformsIf George Orwell were alive today, he’d probably move to Bangladesh — not for inspiration, but because reality has outpaced fiction.On August 5th, 2024, Dr. Younus, a man of many secrets and even fewer […]

Shamima Choudhury Controversial Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen recently wrote that Dr. Yunus is a type of man who always tries his best to retain his job. For example, when the Sheikh Hasina government in 2009 asked all officials particularly of the financial institutions to follow the government regulations and retire from active service once they […]

Swadesh Roy The nature of the sideline meeting between Muhammad Yunus and Shri Narendra Modi suggests that India had diplomatically kept things hanging in a state of “uncertainty.” Yet, Muhammad Yunus had come with at least one preparation—which, at this moment, was most crucial for him. That is, to look for an exit route from […]

By Aminul HaqueBangladesh finds itself in freefall—gripped by lawlessness, surging violence against women and minorities, political suppression, press censorship, and a dangerous rise in religious extremism. Just when the nation is gasping for relief, the interim government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has chosen to distract with a medieval-style Eid-ul-Fitr procession in Dhaka—an event that […]